With his residential buildings, office blocks, schools and factories, Boris Velikovsky (1878-1937) made a definitive contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture. His early constructions, such ...
The prominent architect Felix Novikov was born in 1927, when the famous Constructivist Konstantin Melnikov was at the peak of his career. Novikov tells ...
Aleksandr Rodchenko was one of the main generators of creative ideas during the extraordinary time of the Russian avant-garde movements, and he perfectly reflected ...
Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the ...
Sergey Chernyshev, one of the founders of Soviet urban planning, deservedly occupies a special place among the leading Russian architects of the 20th century. ...
Konstantin Melnikov (1890-1974) is unquestionably one of the outstanding architects of the 20th century'in spite of the fact that he fell silent early, leaving ...
Ilya Chashnik (1902-1929) is one of the most outstanding artists of the early twentieth century. As a student and colleague of Kazimir Malevich, he ...
This book presents life and work of prominent architect and publicist Felix Novikov (b.1927) who first coined the term 'Soviet modernism', which refers to ...
This period of the Soviet Union was dominated by Joseph Stalin, who sought to reshape Soviet society with aggressive economic planning, in particular a ...
Russia has undergone an amazing cultural and political transformation over the past forty years. How has its rapidly changing social landscape shaped its art? ...
On December 22, 2009 one of the leading Russian architectural bureaus, Ostozhenka, turned 20. Creative thinking of the bureau’s staff keeps them awake; editors ...
The catalogue presents 40 works of ACHITECTON , an ambitious Moscow-based architectural bureau, produced during the period of 2001 to 2009. Among the projects ...
The careers of Dimitry Velichkin and Nikolay Golovanov are surpresingly similar. Both were born in Moscow in 1959. Both graduated from the Moscow Architectural ...
